Relative roles of top-down and bottom-up forces in terrestrial tritrophic plant-insect herbivore-natural enemy systems

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Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 177-187

  Walker, Matthew ^a,b   Hefin Jones, T ^a,c  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b Surrey Technology Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; HERBIVORE; NATURAL ENEMY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0034984627     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.930201.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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